Best Annie Poems

My grandma was a steeple jack, 
Of heights she had no fear.
The crowds would gather round to watch.
They came from far and near, 
 
To see her swing and pirouette, 
Doff her hat and wave.
And gasped and cheered each time she feigned
A slip and then...

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Orphan Annie  
                                        Visits everyday
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A mystery, you, a child of our times, 
you write of love and loss with equal flair, 
flitting through rhythms and flirting with rhymes, 
even your free verse is lighter than air. 
Tiptoeing lightly while sharing your muse, 
scattering adverbs to brighten my day, 
likely...

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Sank that Annie Laurie, down beneath those waves,
Took with her such fine young crew and not a life she saves.
Left there on the mountain,
Just the wives, the gals, the slaves.

Ne'er hunt nor e'er sing shall these lads so lost,
To mountain folk only known that which...

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Grandma Annie was a sweet old lady
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...for Annie Brittle

A mystery, you, a child of our times,
you write of love and loss with equal flair,
flitting through rhythms and flirting with rhymes,
even your blank verse is lighter than air.
Tiptoeing lightly while sharing your muse,
scattering adverbs to brighten the day,
likely as not you will...

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If I was part machine, a steampunk woman, or a steampunk dog, or a steampunk cat,
I would choose to have a machine heart, so I could be less soft. 
So my feelings would not get hurt so easily, so I could
Stop crying inside when people...

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We would go to the forgotten towns of west Texas
Places that we couldn’t name and hunt for their souls
Sometime it was on the roadside a place they had been abandoned
Sometimes in and old house broken and forgotten
She’d stand there in her boots and ragged old...

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Annie, our Golden, is a member of the family
Just like a daughter, it's really uncanny
After going out upon our return
Our love's enthusiastically reaffirmed
Her excitement explodes, our dearest sweet Annie


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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a little girl with braids a-flyin
a stick pony without a head
righting the wrongs of childhood
when others don't play along

I rope my brother, tie him down
make him the bad guy, make him frown
he's not that happy, playin my game
Annie Oakley, runs away
before he can tell mom

I...

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A bucking mare that was named Annie 
Liked kicking at each nook and cranny.
Since Young William was brave 
He then mounted this nave,
Annie's hoof was found stuck in his fanny!...

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T’was quite uncanny
How cute little Annie 
Got the gig as the nanny
To care for young Danny
Whose daddy was Giovanni
All while pleasing the live-in granny

T’was cute little Annie
who introduced them to samosas Pakistani
The tasty kind that no matter how many
Don’t add one ounce to your teeny...

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Annie Oakely: The Poem by Shane Nielsen
Deep in the Ohio woods, to brown eyes aspy,
The wondrous echoes of nature give their humble reply,
to the spirit of sight, and the will to try.
Billows of smoke from fires who do not cease to prier,
ventured the aptly named...

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How can i refuse
When I'm crazy on you
I have no other love
I tell it like it's true
 
When I'm alone
These dreams i have for you
You keep my love alive
Save my heart from turning blue
 
My tall dark handsome stranger
My magic man
Will you be there in...

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"Mommie iis gone"  Annie a darling (lil) angl of a small {but} virbrant one, who is sad-
den by the lost of her...(Mother) Here at the funereal..{Annie}  could hardly describe
what the emptines of how she's going to make it without the comm--mmfforrttt of a...

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